Hard Volume [Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Rollins Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: 2 13 61 Records
• ASIN: B00002Z845
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,842 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hard

2. What Have I Got

3. I Feel Like This

4. Planet Joe

5. Love Song

6. Turned Inside Out

7. Down and Away

8. Tearing

9. You Didn't Need

10. Ghost Rider

11. What Have I Got [#][Demo Version]

12. Thin Air [#][Demo Version]

13. Down and Away [#][Demo Version]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars His best before the storm, January 10, 2003

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Daniel Byrd "danbyrd30" (Katy, Tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Volume (Audio CD)

When Black Flag ran out of gas in the late 80s, it took Henry Rollins six months to get this band together and running. This is THE Rollins Band album to buy, considering his body of work before 'The End Of Silence' came out.
This is the still poor, angry, we can make this band work Henry. Hard, angry, and not too poorly recorded. I love this album, all the tracks. But I only give it 4 stars because of the missing original CD track 'Joy riding with Frank', a 25+ minunite live track that had the best bass guitar work I have ever heard on ANY rock album.
Either way, its a great buy. Its funny, back when I bought this album around 1988, I couldnt think of Henry Rollins singing for anyone other than Black Flag. Now, listening to this album, considering Black Flags later work, it sounds like he was wasting his time with Black Flag, waiting to make this album, and when he did, he exploded. Recomended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Black Flag? Possibly., March 2, 2005

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Mattowarrior "Mattowarrior" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard Volume (Audio CD)

I never thought that I would like a Rollins related project better than Black Flag (or psychotic free Jazz tinged punk for that matter). But this album makes this band come close to being better than Flag to me. Chris Haskett is almost an antithesis to Greg Ginn. He is very restrained when soloing, uses tube amps and has a warm tone unlike Ginn, who was rude, unrestrained and out of control at times. Thats where their differences end though, as Haskett seems to worship Black Sabbath and Fusion just as much as Ginn. The rest of the band, easily outdoes Flag (even the classic lineup) as bassist Andrew Weiss could be pitted against any bass shredder like Billy Sheehan, and Drummer Sim Cain is amazing as well. This album is halfway from Lifetime to End of Silence, but add an Einsturzende Neubaten/Swans influence come mid album, and you have a killer cd. The song "Hard" sounds like they listened to a bit of Van Halen and Fusion and mixed them together (I'm serious, this swings alot like Hot for Teacher, listen to them back to back if you dont believe me). Rollins is more controlled than on Lifetime but he has a lot more power and passion. An essential album to buy..

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard as nails, November 27, 2002

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Paul Mcdonough (Irving, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Volume (Audio CD)

This album is the last truly underground release of Henry's career (it originally appeared on Texas Hotel records) and while Henry has admitted that he withheld some of the stronger material that they were working on (Tearing in particular) for later release (End of Silence), this album is easily the darkest, hardest and most honest album in the Rollins Oeuvre. The opening track "Hard" is an awesome ode to self-preservation, while "Planet Joe" is a brutally uncompromising vision of the iconoclastic spirit. However, it is the amazing "Turned inside out" (Who's the criminal now? Is that you? Could that be you?) and the frighteningly honest "Down and away" (The closer you get, the farther away I feel) that dominate this release. The bonus tracks are great (mostly demos), particularly the unreleased "Thin air," one of the greatest Rollins band songs of all time. This disc is like the Swans on steroids. Don't beleive me? Buy it and see. Rollins plans on re-releasing "Joy riding with Frank" in the future, so don't despair. However, you should have bought the original release true fan